Shops that do my head in

jellyhead

asda does that spaceship thing with me too, and my mum and sister. we all swear we've only been in there for 5 minutes, lol!

i think flourescent lighting has an effect. all stores are different, and our asda is far too bright. it makes my son hyper and used to give me migraine and a twitchy eye until i got react-to-light lenses. mcd's is the same, the kids go hyper and the mums get headaches even if they're not eating the food - the lighting is awful.

Savvy_Sue

humph! i've got a first class honours degree and everyone i work with at mcd's is doing a degree or a masters. where do you live? in my town mcd's won't take staff who don't have A levels. oh, apart from those who are studying for their A levels ... is it a management thing perhaps? our manager employs students because they're smarter than the average bear.

Sorry, I didn't mean to impugn the intelligence of those working in BK or McD: they often appear to be overseas students wherever I've gone. Nor am I suggesting that there are no minimum educational requirements for working in such illustrious establishments. And as an honest means of earning money they may, while you're a student, be as good as any. I just can't imagine my boys being happy spending the rest of their lives serving burgers! Or arranging the underwear in Primark, which they agree, as a job, must be absolutely pants! So making sure they get the message that although your GCSE results will only matter for a few years, it is absolutely essential that if you want the widest possible range of choices post-16 you get your 'at-least-5-GCSEs-at-grade-C-or-above-including-Maths-and-English'.

i think flourescent lighting has an effect. all stores are different, and our asda is far too bright. it makes my son hyper and used to give me migraine and a twitchy eye until i got react-to-light lenses. mcd's is the same, the kids go hyper and the mums get headaches even if they're not eating the food - the lighting is awful.

And the NOISE! I don't think McD does, but BK certainly used to blast out musak. The first few times I tried to order in one was a nightmare: I couldn't hear a word of what the servers were saying to me, and they didn't appear to be able to hear a word of what I was saying to them, and I didn't know how to order our whoppas so that one came with garnish, one with nothing but tomato sauce, and one with no garnish at all not even tomato sauce, so that we had to repeat the whole performance about three times to get it right. I had a headache before any food had appeared!

jellyhead

illustrious establishment, chuckle! it's about 75% masters students from malaysia/singapore/china/sri lanka where i work and around ten percent are college students doing their A levels. the management all have masters degrees in business too, but maybe that's just in our place, it might be different elsewhere. i suppose there is a hardcore element of teenagers who've come straight from school without GCSE's and will work in that kind of job forever. as a job while you're studying it's okay if you can stand it. i preferred working in a nightclub when i was at college but am old and creaky now, the music would be too loud lol!

but yes, i agree that your boys should be encouraged to leave themselves as much choice as possible after the GCSE's. most people only use mcd's as a temp job while studying. i don't wish to speak ill of the staff in poundstretchers, but they do all seem to be school leavers . one of my mum's work colleagues says her daughter has a saturday job there and they only pay £2 an hour! i don't know if it's true or if it's gone up recently but that's another problem with jobs like mcd's/etc. - you never get more than minimum wage and none of the staff can afford a car or mortgage.

the problem with the music in mcd's is it's too loud and when you combine it with all the beeping from the machines it means a lot of the foreign students (and olod people such as myself) can't distinguish what customers are saying. they can speak english well enough to study for a degree but when there are so many noises it makes it harder for them to pick up on what customers are saying, so they're more likely to get the orders wrong. it annoys the customers and i don't think they actually want to listen to britney spears while chomping on their burgers, but i assume there's some reason for the music - maybe it makes people eat more quickly so they don't linger and take up tables other customers could use, i don't know. i must say i'd rather have the bland pop than the xmas carols every other shop will start playing soon. or those dreadful colgate ads on the asda radio lol!

i don't know why asda play asda radio - maybe the music contains subliminal messages that make you buy sunny delight instead of bottled water, and smarties instead of raisins lol!

juno

it annoys the customers and i don't think they actually want to listen to britney spears while chomping on their burgers, but i assume there's some reason for the music - maybe it makes people eat more quickly so they don't linger and take up tables other customers could use, i don't know.

I saw a programme on TV ages ago, and people apparently do eat in time to the music! So they play fast music when it's busy, to get people out quickly, and slower music when it's quiet so people eat slower and make the place look busier!

jellyhead

hmmm ... i think they do, it's always busted at lunch time and ballads at the quiet times!

why do asda play slow stuff all the time? maybe it slows your brain waves so the ads have more of an effect on your subconscious?

Dreamnine

Tesco..........

andyrules

linz wrote: »

Sports soccer should make their aisles bigger. Takes me ages to get around their shops.

Sports Soccer don't have any aisles:D

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MothballsWallet

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Don't believe it. Not all shops. Not forever. Tool shops, bookshops, gadget shops, computer accessory shops ... these are a few of my (un)-favourite shops I can't get past with certain males in tow.

Not that I always object to bookshops! The ones which have a few chairs around the place are usually OK! But I question the wisdom of allowing t'other half anywhere near one when we come home from holiday with three carrier bags of books and nowhere to put them other than another pile on the floor!

Mrs MbW always prefers to do her clothes shopping in places where there are some seats so I can sit down and wait for her - at least she understands how boring shopping can be.

Although, we often go to different shops and meet up later.